The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog
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Today at Collision Conference we unveiled breaking new research on the economic and productivity impact of generative AI–powered developer tools. The research found that the increase in developer productivity due to AI could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion.

To play the devil’s advocate, most professional development happens on proprietary IDEs but software development isn’t under their control. AI assisted intellisense isn’t much different. The nature of our work will become more abstract as our tools improve. There are at least some open LLMs. One of them might surface as the alternative.

most professional development happens on proprietary IDEs

I don’t think this was always true. If it is now, that’s a bad thing.

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